Overshoe



(No Model.)

D. HALL.

I v OVERSHOE.

No. 300,774. Patented June 24, 1884.

WITNESSES: INWENTQR M 55% M j Nrrnn DAVID HALL, OF MIDDLETOIVN,CONNECTICUT.

OVERSHOE.

5PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,774, dated June24;, 1884.

Application filed February 8, 1884.

1'0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, DAVID HALL, a citizen of the United States, residingat Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Boots, Shoes, andOvershoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description, which will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the manufacture of boots, shoes, and overshoes,by which the same are more serviceable and useful for walking on ice oron any smooth or slippery surface, and for the preventing the user orwearer of the same from slipping.

Figure 1 shows a shoe with my improvement attached. Figs. 2 and 3 show astrip of steel or other metal running along the center of the sole ofthe boot, shoe, or overshoe, with bars of the same metal crossing thesole on the'ball and at the heel portions. The cross-pieces are rivetedthrough the sole and through the long (N0 model.)

| united, form the bottom of the boot, shoe, or overshoe, and the steelor metal strips lie be tween the upper and undersole, withthe'points 3 5projecting below. WVhen attached to the boot, shoe, or overshoe, it hasthe appearance as represented in Fig. 1.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secureby Letters Pato ent is 1. In an improved boot, shoe, or oversh oe, thelower or outer sole provided with a longitudinal metallic strip andcross-strips upon its inner side, the longitudinal strip and cross- 45strips having points projecting through the sole, as set forth.

2. A boot, shoe, or ove-rshoe provided with an inner and outer sole,having alongitudinal metallic strip and cross-strips secured between thetwo soles, the longitudinal strip and crossstrips having teeth or pointsprojecting through the outer sole, all substantially as set forth.

8. In a boot, shoe, or overshoe, the outer sole provided with metallicstrips having triangular points struck up from themetallic strips, andprojecting through the sole, all substantially as set forth.

DAVID HALL.

\Vitn esses:

Gno. W. SMITH, W. E. ASHLEY.

